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- one of the canonical nine poets of ancient Greece who is considered, almost ... Pindar was born at Cynoscephalae, a village in Thebes. He was the ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 06:16, 24 November 2022
- Ares was rarely worshipped in ancient Greece, except among the Spartans ... One of the many roles of Ares was in the founding of Thebes. Ares ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan ... The Roman orator Cicero called him "the first man of Greece, ...33 KB (5,264 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
- and it became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium B ... or Olympeion (once the largest temple in Greece but now mostly in ruins) ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- as a mythical creature existed in Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, was revered ... representing the god Amon, in Thebes, of which there were originally ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- Nubia, the expedition worked back north, reaching Thebes on November 2, 1844, where they spent four months studying the western bank of the Nile (such ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- deity whose cult originated at Thebes, in the Upper Kingdom of ... of Min, especially in the area around Thebes (from whence it originated). ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... classical Greek legacy. Relations between Greece and the Ottoman Empire and ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- that developed between 3000-1200 B.C.E. in Greece and the basin of the Aegean ... Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- 1941, on the eve of the German invasion of Greece. During the Second World ... Politically, Cyprus was entangled in the dispute between the UK, Greece ...11 KB (1,573 words) - 20:33, 29 August 2021
- and later by the Valley of the Kings in Thebes, it remained an important ... kings, in the Valley of the Kings in Ancient Thebes. ==Later burials ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- of power among the leading city-states of Greece and the Peloponnese. Athens, the strongest city-state in Greece prior to the war's beginning ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- of the most influential writers of ancient Greece and among the greatest dramatists ... the myth of Oedipus, son of King Laius of Thebes and Queen Jocasta, also known ...23 KB (3,721 words) - 01:18, 4 February 2023
- Xenocrates ( Ξενοκράτης ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third scholarch or rector of the Academy from ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 B.C.E. in Akademeia, then a northern suburb six ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- From this passage it is clear that Philolaus had spent time in Thebes ... , took refuge first in Lucania and then at Thebes, where he had as pupils Simmias ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- Mycenae (Greek grc|Μυκῆναι), is an archaeological site in ... its civilization, such as Tiryns, Pylos, Thebes, and Orchomenos.Brian Mandelkow ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus about 241 B.C.E. He left no extant ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 04:33, 6 October 2022
- for belonging to the ruling elite. In Greece, the oligarchs were often ... of a Constitutional Form in Ancient Greece (Historia Einzelschirften; ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- muster a force which invaded Upper Egypt and made Thebes his capital. Necho I, fighting as Assyria's vassal, may have died in the battle. Another ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... "Ancient Greece" is the term used to describe the Greek ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- came to Athens and began to study under Crates of Thebes, the most famous Cynic living at that time in Greece. Zeno studied under several other philosophers ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- that it may almost be said that all Greece fixed its eyes upon him, and joined the Megaric school.” He apparently won over disciples from ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 04:09, 9 November 2022
- from numerous city-states (including Thebes, Euboea, Naxos, Sparta and ... Returning in triumph, he undertook to introduce his worship into Greece ...32 KB (5,115 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- particularly in the Ancient Near East, Greece, Egypt, Ethiopia, and, quite ... across the globe. In Ancient Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- as the most-supreme cultural artifact of Greece. In some sense, he was the ... as Zeus Amphiaraus at Oropus outside of Thebes, and the Spartans even had ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- Spartē) was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the River Eurotas ... from Epirus and Macedonia in northeast Greece came south to the Peloponnese ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- Hellenic state, from Athens and Sparta, to Thebes and Ithaca: "As illustrations ... * Dillon, Matthew. Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece. London; ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- In another case of deadly hubris, Niobe, a queen of Thebes and wife ... * Dillon, Matthew. Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece. London ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- Although overshadowed by the legacy of Greece and of Rome, the Phoenicians ... mythology. Traditionally, the city of Thebes was founded by a Phoenician ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- of other gods, especially of the state god Amen of Thebes. ... model of legendary King Oedipus of Thebes, Greece and Tiy the model for ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ... as a soldier—he was wounded protecting Greece at the Battle of Marathon—and ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- that had perished, such as Palmyra, Persepolis, and Thebes, had left ruins to mark their sites and tell of their former greatness; but of this city, imperial ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- Greece ( Ελλάδα [eˈlaða] or Ελλάς [eˈlas] ... Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the fourth century ... 3D%23156;layout=;loc=5.11 10] Supported by Thebes and Thessaly, Macedon took ...80 KB (11,861 words) - 09:32, 28 January 2024
- also saw an influx of immigrants from Greece, it was also at this point ... had no cult of her own. In this way, at Thebes Hathor was identified with ...27 KB (4,192 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- by the Greeks to win independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire. ... concern for the economic backwardness of Greece yet when, post-independence ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita The battle was fought between the Allied (Greece and the British Commonwealth ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- also saw an influx of immigrants from Greece, it was also at this point ... deities: Atum in Lower Egypt, Amun in Thebes, Ptah in Memphis, and Ra ...20 KB (3,212 words) - 17:11, 23 October 2022
- and sixth centuries B.C.E. in ancient Greece. These philosophers tried ... Xenophanes had made the first attack on the mythology of early Greece ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- Some of the earliest references to dragons in the west come from Greece ... , who assisted him to build the citadel of Thebes, becoming the founders of ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- In ancient Greece and Rome, oratory was studied as a component of ... sons to study under a famous master in Greece (as was the case with the ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- scale attempt to conquer the remainder of Greece and incorporate it into the ... command of his son-in-law, Mardonius, to Greece. Mardonius conquered Thrace ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- Following the unification of the multiple city-states of Ancient Greece ... Alexander annihilated the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite corps previously ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- both the largest and the capital city of Greece, located in the Attica periphery ... industrial, political and cultural life in Greece. The city is also rapidly ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- Jews and Christians believed the gods of Greece and Rome to be fallen angels ... Chnum; among the Amun-Mut-Chons triad of Thebes, it was Amun; and among the ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- " He was the mythical founder and king of Thebes. The Ogygian flood covered the whole world and was so devastating that the country remained without ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- king Xerxes led a huge force to subjugate Greece. A small force under King ... biographies and the tour guide of southern Greece compiled at the same time ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- also saw an influx of immigrants from Greece, it was also at this point ... After the authority of Thebes had risen, and made Amun into a much ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- two kingdoms were divided. Mentuhopet of Thebes (c. 2040 B.C.E.) established ... Circa 1550 B.C.E. the rulers of Thebes once again re-unified Egypt ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
